The news has been talking about how the meatpacking industry is a monopoly and driving prices higher. I'm not a rancher but have friends who are, and over the last twenty years the Federal government has been systematically driving small slaughterhouses out of business via regulatory overreach. So they caused the problem and are now laying the blame elsewhere.
The news has been talking about how the meatpacking industry is a monopoly and driving prices higher. I'm not a rancher but have friends who are, and over the last twenty years the Federal government has been systematically driving small slaughterhouses out of business via regulatory overreach. So they caused the problem and are now laying the blame elsewhere.
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